Chaos (or About the Hunger)

[means2bhuman]

Title: Chaos (or About the Hunger)

Characters: Sylar (Gabriel Gray).

Setting: After The Hard Part S1? Sometime in S1.

Rating: PG (weirdness, author introspection)

A/N: Written for the Heroes_contest prompt “Chaos Theory” One-shot challenge No. #32.

A/N #2: This is from the first person narrative. Sylar is arguing, explaining and describing the Hunger.

Comments

[game_byrd]

Ooo! I like! I love the additions and tweaks. You have a lovely cadence to your words - you always have.

[means2bhuman]

Thank you.

I'm just glad they worked out!

I always feel like a herky-jerk when writing, but that's how they come to me. I like what I write so I am content. Still baffles me that other people like the things I write that I think are merely average (I'm an extreme perfectionist in my own work which is why I post and share so little. Just means I'm *that* awesome, right? ;)

[game_byrd]

You are definitely awesome!

[dancingdragon3]

Very deep. I love it.

I liked how you talked about layers of viruses so thick that the whole can't distinguish between them.

And that the monster inside would feed on the host first. That gave me the chills.

If you’re unlucky, then embracing the pathology is the last step of an enduring, living nightmare; an escape from pain. You saw this one coming; you saw it in the making and it comes as no surprise.

Love that line! It seems so true. And evil, cause it turns the insanity on its head and makes it something that improves the person's life, relatively speaking. In other words - insanity can feel good. And that is a very scary thought. One that you elaborate wonderfully on later in the monologue.

My pathology would wither away, degenerate without me;I love how you almost anthropomorphize Sylar's pathology. As he calls them - blood brothers. Like it's something that keeps him company. That's got a definite creep factor there

[means2bhuman]

Yay! Someone got it

[dancingdragon3]

Well I am very glad to hear that I understood what you were saying! Sometimes I worry my lit crit is rusty.

But, yeah I love your analysis of Sylar and his relationship to the Hunger/pathology.

But I am curious, which season's Sylar do you see this being?

[means2bhuman]

You know, I had a question of that myself.

I debated between S1 and S3 and decided on S1, somewhere nearabouts the Hard Part or How to Stop an Exploding Man. Because he's trying to convince himself that he's okay and he's still new at it to want to...prove himself? or maybe explain to someone else. I think by S3 this views would have drastically changed and he no longer bothers to explain himself as its pretty useless.

Also I think Virginia's death would have sparked some of those feelings (needing to be okay and needing to explain) and if he talks himself up enough he'd be a hero and save the world, stop the bomb type thing.

[paynesgrey]

This is some great introspection here, and a perfect take on the prompt. Awesome job!

[means2bhuman]

Thank you.

I thought it missed the 'theory' part of the prompt, but I guess this is Sylar's theory!

Thanks for commenting.